North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James (English) Paperback B

Description: North Face of Soho by Clive James As graduation leads him back to London, author, poet and broadcaster Clive James hits the big time in this fourth instalment of his warm, humorous memoirs. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so he informed his journal, reasonably satisfied. But what happened next? This is the question posed (and answered) by North Face of Soho. Intelligent, amusing and provocative - the words apply to the man himself as much as his writing - the fourth volume of Unreliable Memoirs is every bit as eventful, entertaining, engrossing and honest as the previous three. Notes All four volumes of his memoirs, repackaged in paperback format. Its not just that he writes a lot, but that he writes with intense perfectionism, and delivers his gags with honed elegance Sunday Times Author Biography Clive James is the author of more than 30 books. As well as his four volumes of autobiography - Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week was in June and North Face of Soho - he has published collections of literary and television criticism, essays, travel writing, verse and novels. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature. His latest book is Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time published in April 2007. Review Its not just that he writes a lot, but that he writes with intense perfectionism, and delivers his gags with honed elegance * Sunday Times *I feel I know more about the author after reading it than I gleaned from all of his other books put together. This is a book about hard-earned self-knowledge. What makes it funny is quite how hard the self-knowledge was to earn -- William Leith * Evening Standard *His proses mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that makes his pages truly shimmer * Financial Times * Promotional A lead title for Picador The fourth volume of Clive Jamess autobiography The first three volumes have between them sold in excess of 1,400,000 paperbacks Clive James will promote on publication with interviews and signings Review Quote Its not just that he writes a lot, but that he writes with intense perfectionism, and delivers his gags with honed elegance Sunday Times Promotional "Headline" The fourth volume of Clive Jamess bestselling memoirs Description for Bookstore > Taking us from Fleet Street to Clive James on TV, from Russian department stores to Paris fashion shows - via fatherhood, some killer bees, and a satire starring Anne Robinson as Mrs Thatcher - North Face of Sohois the larger-than-life story of a life lived to the full. Its not just that he writes a lot, but that he writes with intense perfectionism, and delivers his gags with honed elegance Sunday Times One of the most rewarding aspects of this exuberant work is Jamess willingness to reveal the backstage mechanics of his professional life. This book is enormously entertaining Sunday Telegraph In the case of many people who attempt an autobiography even a single volume is one too many. In the case of Clive James the four volumes now in existence are too few. If the final tally puts him up there with Marcel Proust, so much the better FT Magazine I feel I know more about the author after reading it than I gleaned from all of his other books put together. This is a book about hard-earned self-knowledge. What makes it funny is quite how hard the self-knowledge was to earn WILLIAM LEITH, Evening Standard Details ISBN0330481274 Author Clive James Pages 272 Publisher Pan Macmillan ISBN-10 0330481274 ISBN-13 9780330481274 Format Paperback Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 070.92 Birth 1939 Media Book Edition 1st Language English Audience Age 18 Series Unreliable Memoirs Subtitle More Unreliable Memoirs Series Number 4 UK Release Date 2008-11-07 Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-11-07 Audience General AU Release Date 2007-07-31 NZ Release Date 2007-07-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:2352193;

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